Abubakar Sharrif, 23, of Burlington was stabbed to death early Sunday morning, Dec. 4 in what police are calling an act of violence committed after a downtown bar closed.
At 3:08 AM, police received multiple calls about a disturbance outside Piesanos Restaurant on Main Street. Police found Sharrif bleeding heavily from multiple stab wounds. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
It’s the fifth homicide in Burlington this year. According to WCAX reports, Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad said Sharrif was stabbed inside the restaurant and what Murad called a “bar closing fight” continued outside.
Police are investigating but as yet have no suspects.
Sharrif was arrested in 2019 for an assault that occurred when an Old North End, Burlington cellphone sale went awry. He pleaded innocent.
Categories: Crime
I honestly can’t remember seeing so much violent crime in Burlington ever before. Great job! Hopefully they can ban guns in town soon. Those law-abiding, privileged, racist, conservative woodchuck types are the real problem! (Hey, Burlington business owners, better step up before you turn into Portland, and I don’t mean Maine.)
Guns are not used to stan people… Kitchen utensils are.
Excellent point
Celebrating diversity includes accepting the concept that people of different backgrounds and life experiences have different ways of settling even minor disputes. Still celebrating diversity, Burlington?
” Black Rednecks and White Liberals” by Thomas Sowell is great literature pertaining to just this.
Call Zoraya Hightower. Certainly she can fix this.
Why do Burlington’s minorities insist on reinforcing negative stereotypes?
Chittenden County – these crime rates won’t age well for future tourism money and college prospects will go elsewhere. Losing those two things alone will crater your coffers in short order. Go woke…go broke.
What?
Guns aren’t the problem?
I pray for the soul of Mr Sharrif. I am saddened he met such a violent and early demise. He had a mother and father and others who undoubtedly are now grieving. If Fair Sarah would do her job and enforce the law, perhaps his life could have been saved.
You are right about our do nothing DA.
How is the Burlington City council not complicit in these violent crimes? Perhaps the voters in the City are complicit as well. They certainly don’t seem to care or want to support in the safety of residents and visitors in the City of Burlington. Their too busy tapping in their “Hate has no home here” lawn signs to show everyone they hold some moral higher ground than others. How many more reasons do citizens need to stay out of Burlington for their own personal safety and the safety of their families?
Well said. Thanks for implicating the voters in this self-apocalyptic demise of our once-great State of Vermont. We had the power to put an end to the woke nonsense and total abandonment of the criminal justice system in Burlington/Chittenden County and we instead chose to continue with it. The left destroys everything it touches.
It is truly astounding that people who grew up in the horrid desperation of a refugee camp, were rescued and brought halfway around the world, offered every form of public assistance available and given the opportunity to prosper in a first world paradise choose to affiliate themself with violent gangsta culture and bring mayhem to their taxpaying benefactors. When a kid grows up to be a rotten brat, it often makes sense to blame the parents. In this case, the “parents” who did the rotten upbringing is the government, run by the ignorant, petulant, perpetually-aggrieved Left in Vermont. We voted for this.
I was in Burlington last weekend working. I had to swab a stolen car for drug usage. Needles in the rear hatch, trash throughout the vehicle. This was for insurance. The city is trashed, graffiti on abandoned buildings and lots of traffic. This was a student’s car stolen from the street in front of the apt. building. The owner thought the thieves had been arrested but I bet they are out and about looking for the next car to joy ride in while jabbing their needles to get high. Burlington is lost to the dystopian leaders and city council. The voters are okay with the crime and decadence that envelopes the city. Stay away, especially at night. The diversity championed and promoted by the left has destroyed the Queen City. The gangs are calling themselves, The New Americans per a recent article. If you’re a parent, think long and hard about sending your child to school in the newly created cesspool of liberal leadership.
Burlington used to be known for having perpetual parking problems downtown.
I want to give credit where credit is due to the progressives in charge for solving that problem…the last few times I needed to park downtown, there were PLENTY of spaces, especially around City Hall Park…
Perfect area Rich, that’s where a lot of the crime takes place. Good parking isn’t top of the list compared to safety.
The parable of the frog and the scorpion comes to mind.
Look at national fbi crime stats. 56% of murders committed by blacks who are 13% of the population.
It’s even worse than that Charles as males commit approximately 90% of all murders so that 56% of US murders is being committed by approximately 6% of our population. But we’re not allowed to talk about it so it doesn’t exist I guess.
And I guess if we assume that 90% of the 56% of murders committed by blacks are by black males (if the 90% of murderers are males holds true for all races), then essentially 50% of murders in the US are being committed by 6% of our population, black males. This is a real issue,as well as the question of why in general males who are approximately 50% of the US population commit 90% of the murders. Both of these issues need some serious attention.
BEWARE STATISTICAL BIAS
I found an interesting FBI web site.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/violent-crime
Year 2019: Total number of murders for which supplemental homicide data were received.
Total Murders 13,927
Murders by firearms: 10.258
By Handguns: 6,368
By Rifles: 364
By Shotguns: 200
Firearm Unknown: 3,326
Knives: 1,476
Other Weapons: 1,593
By Hand: 600
This table interested me because only 2.6% of all murders were committed with rifles, with so-called Assault Rifles being an even smaller subset.
But statistics being what they are, consider that in 2019 there were 10,085,207 arrests for all offenses. While in 2021 arrests dropped to 4,538,284 – a 45% decrease.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/191261/number-of-arrests-for-all-offenses-in-the-us-since-1990/
In 2021, about 374,300 offenders in the United States were arrested for a violent crime. This is a decrease from the previous year when there were 482,408 arrests for violent offenses in the country.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/191283/number-of-arrests-for-violent-offenses-in-the-us-since-1990/
The question is: Did crime really decline, or did the police simply stop making arrests? And why the constant focus on AR platform rifles? Personally, with regard to arrests, I suspect the later. With regard to the focus on so-called assault rifles, it’s a diversion.
More research required.
BEWARE STATISTICAL BIAS
I found an interesting FBI web site.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/violent-crime
Year 2019: Total number of murders for which supplemental homicide data were received.
Total Murders 13,927
Murders by firearms: 10.258
By Handguns: 6,368
By Rifles: 364
By Shotguns: 200
Firearm Unknown: 3,326
Knives: 1,476
Other Weapons: 1,593
By Hand: 600
This table interested me because only 2.6% of all murders were committed with rifles, with so-called Assault Rifles being an even smaller subset.
But statistics being what they are, consider that in 2019 there were 10,085,207 arrests for all offenses. While in 2021 arrests dropped to 4,538,284 – a 45% decrease.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/191261/number-of-arrests-for-all-offenses-in-the-us-since-1990/
In 2021, about 374,300 offenders in the United States were arrested for a violent crime. This is a decrease from the previous year when there were 482,408 arrests for violent offenses in the country.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/191283/number-of-arrests-for-violent-offenses-in-the-us-since-1990/
The question is: Did crime really decline, or did the police simply stop making arrests? And why the constant focus on AR platform rifles? Personally, with regard to arrests, I suspect the later. With regard to the focus on so-called assault rifles, it’s a diversion.
More research required.